Improvement in apparatus for aging liquors



J. B. BAUX.

APPARATUS FOR AGING mgvons.

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- UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

JOHN B. BAUX, or OAKLAND, ASSIGNOR T0 JAMES GURTlS, or SAN FRANCISCO,CALIFORNIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR AGING LIQUORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 171,341, dated December21,1875; application filed October 25, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN B. BAUX, of Oakland,Alameda county, State of California, have invented an Improved Apparatusfor Heating Wines; and I do hereby declare the following description andaccompanying drawin gs are sufficient to enable any person skilled inthe art or science to which it most nearly appertains to make and use mysaid invention or improvement without further invention or experiment.

My invention relates to an improved apparatus for heating wines andliquors in order to impart to them the quality which is known as age,and to prevent secondary fermentation.

My improvement consists in certain details of apparatus, as will be morefully hereinafter described.

In order to more fully illustrate my invention, reference is had to theaccompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, in which-Figure 1 is a perspective view of my device. Fig. 2 is a verticalsection taken through as m, Fig. 4. Fig. 3 is a section taken through yy, Fig. 4. Fig. 4 is a transverse section.

A is an upright furnace and heater, having double outside walls, I) 11,leaving a space between them, which space communicates with thefire-place (1 below. A stack or chimney, D, egtends upward from over thefire-place, and passes directly up through the center of the furnace A,extending a distance above it. Side flues F F branch off from the upperend of the flue-space between the walls 11 b, and communicate with thechimney or stack D near its top, in the manner shown. This arrangementof lines permits the heat from the furnace to pass .up through thecenter and around the outer walls of the heating apparatus, so as toheat whatever is contained between them. 9 It are two metalliccylinders, one of which is a little larger than the other, so that whenthe smaller is placed inside of the larger a very narrow space will beleft between them. These cylinders, when thus placed together, havesecured to them, both at their tops and bottoms, a hollow annular ringor reservoir, I, with which the space between them communicates. Thesecylinders are short enough to sit inside of the heater, so as tosurround the chimney or stack midway the wall and stack. The lowerreservoir I'has short legs j, which support the two cylinders and theirreservoirs above the bottom of the heater. The spaces between the outerwalls I) b of the heater and outside of the cylinders, and also thespace between the inside of the cylinders and stack D, are kept filledwith water, which is readily heated to the required temperature by meansof the surroun ding fines, which communicate with the fire-place.

The wine to be heated is introduced into the upper annular reservoir Ithrough the pipe K, and passes down between the heated cylinders g h,being heated during its passage to the required degree. After passinginto the lower reservoir I, the wine passes up the pipe 1 and out of themachine. m is a tube, which is provided with a cock, through which thesteam generated in the heater can pass out, and 0 is the opening throughwhich the water is introduced into the machine.

In order to properly regulate the heat a damper, p, is placed in thechimney or stack, and other dampers, q r, in the branch flues, whichlead from the wall-fines, so that by means of these dampers the heat canbe controlled and regulated as desired.

In order to give a more extended heatingsurface for the wine, thecylinders g h, or either of them, may be corrugated, and to prevent thecollapsing of the two cylinders when the liquid is withdrawn, braces canbe employed to keep them apart.

is a cooler and heater, through which the wine-pipes K and l pass 'justoutside of the machine, so that the outgoing liquid will be cooled bythe ingoing liquid, and that which has been heated will heat that whichis passing in, thus utilizing the heat in the liquid which has alreadypassed through the machine for imparting initiatory heat to that whichis passing in.

The chief advantage of this machine over others of its class is itssimplicity and the ease with which it can be cleansed. By making thecylinders plain, or even simply corrugated, no difficulty will beexperienced in keeping them perfectly clean.

' I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

is-- a I The plain or corrugated concentric cylinders g h, with theirreservoirs I I, in combination with the heater A, With itscentrally-arranged stack D, side flues F F, and pipes K I, all eombinedand arranged as and for the purpose above described. 7

In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal.

JOHN B. BAUX. [1,. s.] Witnesses:

J OHN L. 1300M), G. M. RICHARDSON.

